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Below are Aurora and her party, listed in the order in which they join.

    Aurora 
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Click here to see her after retrieving the Moon
Click here to see her in the final acts of the game

The youngest daughter of an Austrian Duke. She is the victim of a spell that makes her wake up in the strange land of Lemuria, where she starts her journey back home.

Once she levels up a bit with some experience, Aurora quickly becomes a strong combatant who can stand against any monster who crosses her path.

  • Affectionate Nickname: Rubella calls her "little lady".
  • Ambiguously Human: She's a descendant of Erin, one of the historical founders of Lemuria. However, it's left ambiguous if she is a normal human who can use magic in Lemuria, or if she was always a magical being whose powers were awakened.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: She's by far the youngest playable character, about seven years old. Subverted when she defeats Crepusculum and obtains the power of the moon, which causes her to age into a young teenager, at which point Gen becomes this.
    • Although by the time of the Reginald the Great (set a few years after the game) she appears to have reverted to her child form.
  • Back from the Dead: She gets killed by Queen Umbra after Nox's defeat. Thankfully, the Sun, Moon and Stars revive her.
    • Even before then, she's already bit the dust before ending up in Lemuria
  • Badass Adorable: She's such a little thing and her sword is way too heavy for her, but that doesn't stop her from kicking serious ass. Most little girls trapped in a dark forest with dangerous monsters would scream and run away. Aurora destroys said monsters with a sword and light magic.
  • Beauty Equals Goodness: She's beautiful as a young woman, and is a very kind person.
  • Benevolent Mage Ruler: She becomes the new Queen of Lemuria in the ending.
  • BFS: Her sword's almost as big as she is, at least when she's a little girl, and the animation shows that it takes everything she has to swing it.
  • Blush Sticker: Her artwork when conversing with other characters depicts her with perpetual blushing.
  • Break the Cutie: She's left devastated when her stepsister, Norah, betrays her with the cruel revelation that she had never cared about her and it was all an act, and she resigns herself to death in the prison tower. Fortunately, Óengus is able to remind her of the numerous lives that will suffer if she gives up.
  • Character Development: Aurora starts as a sheltered, scared girl, lost in an unknown world who just wants to go home. Through her journey, she makes allies, enemies and grows up (and quite literally). This is explicated in her two shown chats with the Queen of Light: in one, she says she would rather stay at home in her castle; in the other, she says that a princess not necessarily needs one.
  • A Child Shall Lead Them: In fact things get hairy for your party once she stops and tries to go home.
  • Cool Crown: It helps to protect her from the Dark Queen's magic, until it disappears after her father's death. She gets a proper crystal crown after her revival.
  • Counter-Attack: Distressingly common for your enemies, amongst your party sadly unique to Aurora. Everyone else can only grin and bear it if a monster starts beating on them.
  • The Cutie: She's such an adorable little girl. She experiences a lot of hardship and pain over the course of her adventure, but remains a very kind and sweet person overall.
  • Daddy's Girl: Extremely adored by her father, to the point where he falls ill and eventually dies of despair after she doesn't wake up from her sleep.
  • Damsel in Distress: She gets locked up by the bad guys for a short while, but Óengus comes to her rescue.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: When she was very young, she saw her own mother die of a mysterious sickness in front of her eyes, two years before the events of the story. It is later revealed that her mother was in fact poisoned by Umbra.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype:
    • Of the Kid Hero. While Aurora is quite capable in dealing with the dangers lurking in Lemuria, she is still very much a child lost and alone in a strange world, and it's pretty clear that the quest given to her is a huge burden on her and that she's Not in This for Your Revolution, but just wants to go home. She has to accept that she can't remain in her comfort zone forever in order to prevail.
    • Of The Cutie. Aurora is kind-hearted, innocent and very huggable. However, her innocence also leaves her vulnerable to manipulation by the Evil All Along Norah, which nearly gets her and her friends all killed.
  • Dead to Begin With: Her physical body died in Austria in the intro no thanks to Umbra poisoning her, meaning she would be a disembodied spirit unable to be held by her loving father even if Norah/Nox had taken her home.
  • Despair Event Horizon: She gets hit with a double whammy of finding out her dad is dying and the betrayal by her stepsister Norah. She goes into such a funk that even her flute-playing cannot ease her grief this time and she's just waiting until a torturer comes to collect her from the cage. Luckily Óengus arrives first...
  • Don't Call Me "Sir": Maybe it's the crown, that she always points out as fake, but everybody that meets Aurora calls her "Princess". She insists in being called Aurora. Óengus is the only one that she allows to call her Princess because as daughter of the Queen Of Light, Aurora is his Princess and no matter what she says, he'll follow his code of honor.
  • Dramatic Wind: Her hair is always flowing as if there is a breeze, even in places without wind. The only time it hangs down even a little is if she stands in the bottom of a waterfall.
  • Ethereal White Dress: Begins wearing white after she is resurrected by the Sun, Moon and Stars.
  • Foil: She's eventually revealed to be one to her stepsister Norah. They are both young princesses with connections to a Magical Land. However, Aurora is a genuine Nice Girl while Norah turns out to be The Mole and an Evil All Along Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
  • Fiery Redhead: Downplayed; Aurora has long, red hair, but she's generally a very kind, compassionate person. That said, she is no doormat, and if she is angry, she'll show it.
  • Flight: She gains the ability to fly after collecting the stars.
  • Good Is Not Soft: While very kind and compassionate, Aurora isn't afraid to use lethal force against those who hurt her, her friends, or other innocent lives.
  • The Heart: She's this and the Hope Bringer. Whenever she plays her flute, whichever team mate who was going through a crisis will feel better and have a renewed sense of hope.
  • Hidden Depths: Her conversation with Rubella before the latter joins the party reveals that she can read and understand Latin, deciphering a letter that Igniculus sees as "scribbly marks".
  • High-Class Gloves: Seen in both her dress at the beginning of the game and in her incarnation as the Queen of Light in the final battle. See the images at right.
  • The High Queen: Becomes one in the ending
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Turns out trusting Norah wasn't a good idea in the end. Justified as she's an innocent child, Norah preyed on her innocence by pretending to be her loving stepsister, and the joys and sorrows of growing up are an important theme throughout the story.
  • Infinity +1 Element: She's the sole user of the Light element which no creature has an elemental resistance to and it hammers any creatures that are elementally dark, including a couple of bosses. If you aren't able to bring Finn into play or he's whiffing a battle, then Aurora ends up as a very capable secondary offensive mage on the strength of this element.
  • Jack of All Stats: Her stats are all fairly balanced. Other party members can fulfil specific roles (e.g. tanking) better than her, but she has exclusive access to light magic.
  • Kid Hero: She is a cute little girl, and the heroine of this story.
  • Light 'em Up/Holy Hand Grenade: Being the titular Child of Light and the Queen of Light's daughter, she learns light-elemental spells naturally.
  • Light Is Good: She's the titular Child of Light and daughter of the Queen of Light, wears a yellow dress, is a user of light magic, and is a very kind person.
  • Little Miss Badass: She kicks tons of monster ass as a cute little girl.
  • The Load/Magikarp Power: Justified initially, after all she's a little girl. At first, any single hit will do a lot of damage to her (and she has one of the worst health totals in the game!), her early attack is one of the weakest, she's neither fast nor agile and she needs more experience to earn a level compared to her companions. So it's a good thing she gets a companion pretty quickly after the first boss. After a couple of levels, she becomes much better and one of the top-tier characters who can more than hold her own against even strong opponents.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: She had no idea that her mother is the Queen of Light and former ruler of Lemuria until the Queen of the Night told her so at the Forgotten Tower. This in turn surprises the Queen of the Night, who had expected her to know. Not that that stops the Dark Queen from attempting to kill her anyway.
  • Lured into a Trap: By her own stepsister Norah, who had lied about the Magic Mirror taking them home to Austria and is not nearly the sweet sister she pretends to be.
  • Magic Knight: Balanced at both melee combat and spellcasting.
  • Meaningful Name: Aurora means dawn in Latin; Aurora is literally the end of the eternal darkness Umbra has cast over Lemuria. Bonus points for going first for the night luminaries (the stars and the moon) and ending with the sun.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Her longing to go home to her father backfires when it's exploited by her stepsister Norah, who is later revealed to be Nox, one of the Queen of the Night's daughters, and her friends all get captured and imprisoned. When Aurora sees them imprisoned, this is her reaction.
  • Mystical White Hair: She can have hair like this if you have the DLC.
  • Nice Girl: She's generally a very kind person, unless you're Umbra or her minions.
  • Narrator All Along: She's the one reading the story.
  • Not in This for Your Revolution: Played straight initially, then averted. Aurora searches for the moon and sun, but she really just wants to go home to her father, a desire that Norah is all too happy to take advantage of. After her longing to go home backfires and she and her friends are all imprisoned and nearly killed, Aurora swears to defend Lemuria and its people.
  • Overnight Age-Up: After obtaining the moon, she grows from a little girl into a young lady.
    • By the time of the Reginald the Great (set a few years after the game) she appears to have reverted to her child form. She also appears to lack her fairy wings so maybe she reverted after returning the stars, moon and sun.
  • One-Hit Kill: Her Light Ray series of spells has a 10% chance of outright destroying a dark creature.
    • Light Ray will kill anything that's not a boss. Note that the game uses dark creature as a general term for monster, it doesn't have to mean a creature of elemental darkness.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: The player can invoke one if you choose not to help Finn or Óengus free their peoples or help Robert open the vault. The normally altruistic, fundamentally Nice Girl Aurora will justify your decision with what amounts to "well, I can't help everyone, I guess", despite going out of her way to help everyone else she comes across.
    • That said, she can turn back and change her mind about helping or not.
  • Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Gets one when she defeats Crepusculum and absorbs the moon, going from approximately 8–9 to 15.
    • By the time of the Reginald the Great (set a few years after the game) she appears to have reverted to her child form. She also appears to lack her fairy wings so maybe she returned the stars, moon and sun causing her to revert to her form at the start of the game. Or maybe it was just a glaring oversight.
  • Pretty Princess Powerhouse: She's the daughter of an Austrian Duke and the Queen of Light. Aurora herself ranks up to queen status by the end. Before long, she'll be slaying monsters every bit as well as any JRPG hero. She doesn't like being called "Princess" though and insists on "Aurora".
  • Red Is Heroic: She has red hair, and is The Hero facing against the Queen of the Night.
  • Semi-Divine: She's a descendant of Erin, who's pretty much a goddess.
  • Sheltered Aristocrat: The Duke got extra careful on his daughter's safety after the death of the Duchess. Thanks to her sheltered upbringing, Aurora never saw the possibility of leaving the walls of her castle and was desperate to return home once she arrived in Lemuria. Her mother once gave her a lecture about leaving the safety of the palace and growing up facing the world outside.
  • Status Buff: Elevate Damage, which increases damage output for a few turns.
  • There's No Place Like Home: She just agrees to travel and fight all the way needed to find the mirror that would take her back home. After swearing to defend Lemuria, her father's death and the flood, she made Lemuria her new home and brought her people to live there.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: After opening her cage, Óengus calls her out as a coward and a disappointment to her mother when she starts faltering and excusing herself off as no more than a little girl who cannot possibly take on the Queen of Darkness. After that wake-up call, Aurora gets her second wind and gets back in the thick of it.
  • Winged Humanoid: She gains fairy wings after obtaining the stars, which allows her to fly.
  • Youthful Freckles: As her artwork when conversing with other characters shows. She still has them as a young woman.

    Igniculus 
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A friendly firefly whom Aurora meets. He decides to follow and help her in her journey.

    Rubella 
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One of two jesters, sister to Tristis, and a member of the ballon-flying Aerostati. She wishes to join up her brother with the circus band and tags along with Aurora.

  • Foil: To her brother, Tristis. They're both jesters and Support Party Members, but her optimism contrasts with her brother's pessimism.
  • Fragile Speedster: Subverted. While she's the party's fastest character, she's got the second-highest HP total in the game, has a passive skill that auto-heals her when she gets low on health, and has tremendous defense.
  • Genki Girl: She's quite energetic.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": She's excited about Oengus joining the party, as her father told her stories about his clan. In her youth, she idolized the Kategida, a race of warriors who protected Lemuria.
  • The Medic: Her spells involve healing, revival, and negative status prevention.
    • Combat Medic: That said, she's also good at interrupting foes via her Tumble attack. She also has one of the highest speed ratings in the game, sometimes allowing her to get two or three attacks to someone else's one and upgrades to her attack talent appear early in her skill tree. Her role is combat is balanced overall between offense and support, and can be tailored for either role exclusively to great effect.
  • Noodle People: She's very lanky.
  • Non-Ironic Clown: Jester in this case, but she's almost always cheerful and provides a lot of comedy through her inability to rhyme (much to Igniculus' indignation).
  • Optional Party Member: Players may not know this but she's one. It's her visibility combined with the fact that there are suddenly more enemies in skirmishes that force people to look for her.
  • Our Elves Are Different: If the pointy ears, magical abilities, and slender build are any indication, Rubella and Tristis are elves of a sort. Their official name is the "Aerostati", a race of Lemuria known for dwelling in balloons.
  • Perpetual Smiler: She's almost always smiling.
  • Pink Girl, Blue Boy: With her brother, Tristis.
  • Phrase Catcher: "Don't you mean [word that rhymes with whatever Rubella has stated, but what she hasn't rhymed herself]?"
  • Support Party Member: She learns the active skills Revive, Ailment Protection, Heal, and Tumble, her normal attack.
  • Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: She doesn't know how to rhyme properly, often having other characters correct her.
  • The Team Normal: She's just a humble jester.

    Finn 
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A young(?) dwarf from the village of Capilli whom requests Aurora to help his cursed village.

    Norah 
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The younger of Aurora's two stepsisters. Norah adores her younger stepsister and tries to protect her from the evils lurking in Lemuria. She guides Aurora to a Magic Mirror in the sky that will take them home.

  • Ambiguously Absent Parent: While both of Aurora's biological parents have a role in the story, Norah's biological father is nowhere to be seen and his identity remains unknown.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: She has abilities based off Charming and Petrification, yet she is an ally. Subverted later when it's revealed she has bad powers and is a bad person.
  • Beauty Equals Goodness: She's beautiful, and aside from some Fantastic Racism conflict with the Bolmus Populi which calls her nature into question, she's a loving and protective older stepsister to Aurora. Subverted later when it's revealed that her sweet demeanor is nothing but a façade, whereupon she veers off into this trope's polar opposite.
  • Beneath the Mask: Her charming personality is nothing but a façade, concealing a dangerous sociopath.
  • But Thou Must!: She will definitely join Aurora's side regardless of what happens.
  • Cool Big Sis: To Aurora.
  • Crutch Character: Levels up very quickly compared to the other characters, and sports some very useful skills. She also leaves after she comes out as Evil All Along.
  • Declaration of Protection: She tells Aurora that as her big sister, it's her job to protect her.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Cool Big Sis. Little Aurora looks up to and loves Norah as her big sister. However, because Norah eventually turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who was Evil All Along, she becomes a major Broken Pedestal and source of trauma to Aurora.
  • Dissonant Serenity: For someone Trapped in Another World, Norah seems quite calm when you find her, contrasting Aurora who broke out crying when she first arrived in Lemuria. That's because Norah is more familiar with Lemuria than she lets on.
  • Dramatic Wind: Same deal as Aurora.
  • Eek, a Mouse!!: She seems to hate rats and is disgusted at Robert and Bolmus people in general.
  • Expy: Of Airy. She's a white-haired girl who serves as a guide to our heroine, is manipulating her for the sake of enforcing a greater evil's will, is fought in a boss battle near the end, and transforms into a monstrous form to fight the heroes.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • A meta example. Notice how she's the only one of the True Companions who isn't on the collector's edition poster?
    • Before getting into the mirror, Norah lectures Aurora about how people aren't always what they seem and that not everybody is as goodhearted as her. This is minutes before her treason.
  • Inexplicably Awesome: Played with. When asked about how she developed her powers, she mentions that the Woman In White gave her magical rings, explaining how she can wield magic on this side of the mirror. This is a bare-faced lie, since she most likely had the powers all along.
  • Interface Spoiler: Like the rest of the party, the strongest of Norah's skills cannot be learned until Aurora gains the power of the moon at the end of Chapter 8. Because this happens after her betrayal, this can give the impression that Norah may have a change of heart later on and rejoin the party. Ultimately subverted. Norah does not rejoin the party, and can only learn those skills on New Game+.
  • Magic Knight: Just like Aurora, she fights with both magic and a blade.
  • The Mole: She was on her mother's side all the time, tricking Aurora into getting in the wrong magic mirror to lead her to the Forgotten Tower.
  • Ms. Fanservice: A mild example. She's a beautiful young girl whose dress leaves her shoulders exposed. Subverted later when it's revealed that she's extremely manipulative and cruel, whereupon she veers off into Fan Disservice.
  • Nice Girl: She's friendly and charming to pretty much everyone save Robert and his people and everyone that isn’t her mother and her biological sister.
  • Nice to the Waiter: Inverted; for some reason, she seems to utterly hate Bolmus Populi and its people, especially Robert. This is probably because she hates rats.
  • The Reveal: She was working for Umbra, her mother, all along and was only deceiving Aurora all this time.
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear: She'll permanently leave the party after her betrayal and take any Oculi on her person with her, not to mention any stat increases you'd buffed her with.
    • Given that her skills are very helpful and she will most likely be low level (compared to the rest of the party) by the time she joins, it is very likely one would equip her with a diamond, which boosts EXP, and takes time to make by fusing tons of other oculi. Rage ensues.
    • Slightly forewarned by the Capili who tells you to give Oculi to those you trust, shortly after obtaining Norah.
  • Sequence Breaking: True, she joins your side no matter what you do, but you can actually recruit her first before you recruit Finn.
  • Squishy Wizard: Particularly in the New Game Plus because she's at comparatively low levels due to leaving the party.
  • Stepford Smiler: She's a sociable, charming girl, but expresses disgust at the Bolmus Populi and is later revealed to be more than a little unhinged.
  • Support Party Member: Her physical attack is very weak, but her skills involve boosting other party members and debilitating enemies.
  • Walking Spoiler: She's closely linked to a mid-game plot twist, making her difficult to talk about thoroughly without spoiling it.
  • Warrior Princess: Comes with the territory when she's older than Aurora.

    Robert 
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A business man archer from Bolmus Populi who takes an interest in Aurora's journey just to increase his earnings and earn the love of another Bolmus.

  • Anti-Hero: He travels with Aurora for personal reasons, but remains an ally to the end.
  • Babies Ever After: In a tie-in book that occurs a few years after the game's events, he and Margaret have married and have a son named Reginald.
  • Critical Hit Class: Has a noticeably higher critical hit rate than most other characters.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: All he wants is to gain wealth and fame in order to impress Margaret, a mouse girl he's in love with.
  • It's All About Me: Has traits of this. He travels with Aurora for personal reasons, and remarks about business opportunities even in inappropriate situations, but he's very friendly and grows to care for Aurora and her other friends.
  • Money Fetish: He is a businessman, after all.
  • Nice Mice: He's somewhat selfish and is more interested in making money and impressing another mouse than saving Lemuria, but he remains an ally to the end.
  • Optional Party Member: After getting to the depths of Magna's body, Robert degrades himself to this.
  • Rain of Arrows: His multi-target attack.
  • Rat Men: He's a humanoid mouse.

    Tristis 
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One of two jesters, brother to Rubella, and a member of the ballon-flying Aerostati. Contrary to his sister, Tristis is perpetually sad and depressed.

  • The Eeyore: He's perpetually sad and depressed.
  • Foil: To his sister, Rubella. They're both jesters and Support Party Members, but his pessimism contrasts with his sister's optimism.
  • Meaningful Name: His name sounds closely to the Spanish and Italian word "triste", which means sad.
  • Optional Party Member: Unlike how many people were forced to take Rubella in to fend off the larger number of enemies at the beginning, some obliviously ignore this guy and never find him, missing out on a useful Support Party Member in the process.
  • Our Elves Are Different: If the pointy ears, magical abilities, and slender build are any indication, Tristis and Rubella are elves of a sort. Their official name is the "Aerostati", a race of Lemuria known for dwelling in balloons.
  • Out-of-Character Moment: Lampshaded by Aurora, who wishes she could be able to record Tristis's happiest moment, Aurora's return to rescue the party from the dungeon, as he said the happiness won't last long.
  • Perpetual Frowner: He's almost always sad.
  • Pink Girl, Blue Boy: With his sister, Rubella.
  • Sad Clown: Looks the part, although he tells Genovefa that his sadness is "just makeup" and says what he feels is more like grief, which he considers distinct from — and deeper than — mere sadness.
  • Status Buff: Ultimate Armor provides extra defense against physical and magical damage, Unstoppable prevents allies from getting interrupted, and Haste increases the speed of a party member.
  • Stone Wall: Boasts very high defense and magical defense, but is lacking in attack.
  • Support Party Member
  • Survivor's Guilt: Either the demise of the circus is making him sad, or he's just sad anyway.
  • When He Smiles: The opportunities when Tristis smiles are rare, but very valuable.

    Óengus 
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A proud Kategida warrior who had no choice but to side with Umbra, secretly scheming against her plot to conquer Lemuria and free his people, including his young brother.

    Genovefa 
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One of the last survivors of the Piscean village. She is a fish girl who joins Aurora to seek revenge on Umbra for killing her parents.

  • The Baby of the Bunch: She reveals that she's almost ten to Finn, who is the second youngest at 13.
  • Badass Bookworm: She tells Robert that she learned magic from a book of Piscean spells and that she has a love of reading.
  • Berserk Button: For some reason, she dislikes clowns and jokes. She even was ready to attack Rubella when she talked to her. Fortunately, Rubella is a jester.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: This gives her motivation to destroy Queen Umbra, and allows her to join the party.
  • Child Prodigy: Robert points out how she knows quite a few helpful spells despite not even being ten yet.
  • Last of Her Kind: She and Drust are the only survivors of the Piscean village.
  • Musical Assassin: She casts spells via her harp.
  • Optional Party Member: You can either inform her that her parents were smashed down to bits or ignore her and continue.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: Downplayed. She has pink hair and pigtails that looks like flowers but, aside some childish moments, she's quite mature.
  • Status Buff: Jump Forward Jig allows the player to start further in front of the wait zone.
  • Status Effects: Can cause knockback, slow, and paralyze with her abilities.
  • Support Party Member: Her offensive stats are poor, but she has several abilities that affect the timeline.
  • Time Master: Unlike Norah, Gen has more moves to slow enemies down, and even her standard attack can cause knockback all the time.
  • When She Smiles: Gen's default face seems to be a frown, but she's very cute in the moment she's smiling.

    Golem 
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A DLC character formerly only for the PC version, now for consoles too.

  • The Big Guy: He and Óengus are the most physically powerful of the party.
  • Critical Hit Class: Has a noticeably higher critical hit rate than most other characters.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: His name tag and dialogue are color-coded black, and he is a loyal ally.
  • Losing Your Head: He's literally a talking head when you first find him. You need to find the rest of his parts to put him back together.
  • Mighty Glacier: Even moreso than Óengus, he has good attacking stats, and good magical defense, but is the slowest character.
  • invoked No Export for You: Wii U owners will never get to have him due to unexplained reasons. Everyone else had more luck.
  • Regenerating Health: Has an ability that allows him to regenerate health over a few turns.
  • Status Effects: Can cause knockback, slow, and paralyze with his abilities.

Other Good Guys

    The Duke 

The father of Aurora. After her slumber takes her to Lemuria, he becomes bedridden with grief.

  • Death by Despair: He falls ill and eventually dies after the grief brought on by his daughter's "death".
  • Genre Blindness: He thought it was a good idea to re-marry and bring a stepmother and her two daughters into his young biological daughter's life... in a Fairy Tale setting. What could possibly go wrong?
  • Good Parents: Adores his daughter, and his daughter adores him.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: The woman he marries in the intro two years after the death of his first wife turns out to be Queen Umbra, who was responsible for the death of his first wife in the first place. In the Duke's defence, he was feeling very lonely and found solace in her company, but nonetheless marrying her has disastrous results for both him and his daughter.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: The rhyming pattern implies he was actually about to say "Goodbye" when Aurora refuses to leave Lemuria to Umbra, but dies before he can finish the word.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: He has no idea that Aurora's soul is still alive in Lemuria after her physical death, which leads to him falling ill from grief. By the time he realises the truth, it's too late for him, and he dies soon after.
  • Nice Guy: He loves his daughter dearly. Even at the cost of his own life, he would rather have Aurora do the right thing.
  • So Proud of You: In his final moments, he wishes that Aurora would return to him but is happy that she chose the right thing.
  • Unnamed Parent: His name is never disclosed.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Two years after the death of his first wife, the Duke felt lonely and found solace in a woman who eventually became his second wife. As it turns out, marrying her was a fatal mistake as she is none other than Umbra.
  • You Did the Right Thing: In the end, Aurora tells him that, while she has and will always love him, she can't be with him if it means that the Lemurians will suffer.
    Duke: My... Aurora... Good...

    The Lady of the Forest (Unmarked Spoilers) 

Lady of the Forest/Queen of Light

An old woman who helps Aurora traverse Lemuria. She is later revealed to be the spirit of Aurora's deceased mother, the Queen of Light.

  • Ambiguously Human: She's a descendent of Erin, one of the historical founders of Lemuria. However, it's left ambiguous if she is a normal human who learnt magic while in Lemuria, or was always a magical being.
  • But Now I Must Go: Disappears seconds after giving the flute to Aurora. Once Aurora defeats Umbra and becomes Queen, her spirit can finally rest in peace, now that her daughter, people and land are safe.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Her hair is golden, and she is a kind woman.
  • The High Queen: Once her identity as the Queen of Light is revealed.
  • In the Hood: The Lady of the Forest is dressed in a grey cloak.
  • It May Help You on Your Quest: Aside from giving Aurora wings, she gives her a flute. It's not even a magic flute, just a simple, mundane flute. This flute, however, helps to encourage depressed people with its melody. When Aurora dies, the Queen plays the melody to summon the Sun, Moon, and Stars to revive her.
  • Lonely at the Top: She was all alone in her castle and always had a sad face while walking its empty hallways. She left Lemuria to escape the loneliness.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She left Lemuria to escape the loneliness of her castle. While it allowed her to meet the Duke and give birth to Aurora, it was a risky move as it also allowed Umbra to find her, murder her, and conquer Lemuria — which is exactly what happens.
  • The Reveal: She's the Queen of Light and Aurora's mother.
  • Semi-Divine: As the Queen of Light and Aurora's mother, she's a descendant of Erin, who's pretty much a goddess.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Her active role is minimal, appearing once after the first boss and disappears until just before the Final Boss, but she is the one who tells Aurora about Lemuria's suffering under Queen Umbra and how to help the land's people, bestows Aurora with the power to fly as well as giving her a flute to bring hope to the depressed, and is revealed at the end to be the spirit of her dead mother, the Queen of Light. In other words, she is very important to the story.
  • Unnamed Parent: Her name is never disclosed.
  • Walking Spoiler: Her end-game reveal as the Queen of Light and Aurora's mother changes everything about her.
  • Walking the Earth: Some confessions narrate her travels around Europe after she left Lemuria.

    Avo 

An old Capilli and Finn's grandfather.

  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: He doesn't thank Aurora that much for driving off the dark creatures away from his hut near the altar.
  • Forced Transformation: Was turned into a crow by the Dark Queen.
  • Grumpy Old Man: He's not the most pleasant person in Lemuria, but he's far from the worst.
  • Meaningful Name: His name means grandfather in Portuguese.
  • So Proud of You: After he learns that his cowardly son Finn had fought against the darkness, he finally calls Finn a man.

    Magna 

A living humanoid cliff that transports the Bolmus Populi around Lemuria.

  • Early-Bird Cameo: She, or a being like her, can be seen walking across the background while Aurora traverses the Mahthildis Forest.
  • Genius Loci: She's pretty much a sentient, humanoid cliff with the Bolmus city on her back.
  • Monster-Shaped Mountain: A sentient variant.
  • Rock Monster: A giant made of a mountain.
  • Womb Level: In a sense — you have to go inside her in order to kill the spiders who have infested her.

    Margaret 

A female Bolmus Populi whom Robert is in love with.

  • Babies Ever After: In a tie-in book that occurs a few years after the game's events, she and Robert have married and have a son named Reginald.

    Kategida Captain, Cuchulain 

Óengus' rather Big Little Brother whom he trained how to fight since he was young. He is the leader of the Kategida clan imprisoned in the Forgotten Tower.

    Drust 

An elderly Piscean watching over Genovefa in the absence of her parents.

  • Last of His Kind: He and Gen are the last Pisceans in the village.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: He's never seen after the party leaves to face the Ogre, nor does he reappear in the game's climax. This may imply he was also eaten shortly thereafter, leaving Gen as the last Piscean.

    Reginald 

The son of Robert and Margaret born after the events of the game, he's a very adventurous Bolmus Populi. Unfortunately, most Bolmus Populi are too focused on business and marketing, so he decides to do a little venture...

Villains

    In General 
A despotic queen and her two daughters who co-rule Lemuria by fear. They have stolen the sun, moon and stars from the Lemurian sky, leaving the land trapped in endless darkness.

WARNING: Due to the nature of these characters, their folders shall contain unmarked spoilers.

    Queen Umbra 

Umbra/Stepmother

Aurora's Wicked Stepmother. The main antagonist, she tries to conquer Lemuria in revenge for her mother's exile, and causes many curses to both lands. Mother of two daughters, Crepusculum and Nox.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: She goes out quite resigned and somberly, merely telling Aurora that all she wanted was a home, some place she could call her own. Never mind the fact she caused many deaths and chaos in Lemuria.
    Umbra: I only wanted a home. Someplace... I could call my own.
    Aurora: In this world, for ill or good, we live together, not alone.
  • Big Bad: She is the main antagonist.
  • Cool Crown: As the Big Bad, she's an important character.
  • Dark Is Evil: She wears dark purple and has black hair. Yup, obviously a good guy.
  • Entitled Bitch: She believes herself to be the "rightful" ruler of Lemuria. In reality, she's a despotic usurper who murdered the previous ruler, Aurora's mother, to take the throne.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her being a murderous despot, she loved her daughters Crepusculum and Nox. When Aurora kills Nox, her last surviving daughter, Umbra laments that her bloodline is now broken.
    Umbra: No! My youngest dead. The bloodline broke.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Aurora. Umbra herself notes that there are similarities between the two of them prior to their battle, both being distant descendants of two of Lemuria's founders (Umbra from Cynbel the Wise, Aurora from Erin the Conqueror) and were outcasts living outside of Lemuria at one time. That's where the similarities pretty much end, as Umbra is a vengeful tyrant who ruthlessly represses the residents of Lemuria and couldn't care less about them, while Aurora is a kind and compassionate person who brings hope to the repressed and restores Lemuria to harmony after defeating Umbra and becoming queen.
  • Evil Matriarch: Her daughters are her Co-Dragons.
  • Evil Overlord: She's a murderous despot and the Big Bad.
  • Evil Sorceress: Among her powers are the ability to turn others into crows, wingless flight, One-Hit Kill magic, and transforming into a dragon.
  • Evil Virtues: She's a genuinely doting parent and never treated Aurora poorly enough in Austria for her to notice her true colors until they encountered each other in Lemuria.
  • Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: She wears dark makeup around her eyes.
  • Expy: All things considered, she's essentially a mash-up of Queen Grimhilde, Maleficent, and Lady Tremaine, all three of whom she borrows various elements from.
  • Fur and Loathing: Wears a purple fur coat. She even has one in her dragon form!
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: To say that she is unpopular with the common Lemurians would be an understatement. Considering her despotic rule, who can blame them?
  • High Collar of Doom: Dear God.
  • Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her killing Aurora in the game's opening is what sent Aurora's soul to Lemuria in the first place—due to the latter's mother casting a protective spell just before her death—setting a chain of events in motion that eventually led to her own defeat. However, her fatal action also led to the Death by Despair of Aurora's father, shortly after Nox is killed.
  • Ignored Epiphany: At the Forgotten Tower, Queen Umbra is mildly taken by surprise when she tells Aurora that she (Aurora) is her enemy's daughter, only for Aurora to respond with "What has my father done?", revealing that Aurora does not know about her mother being the former Queen of Lemuria who exiled Umbra's mother years before Aurora was born. Umbra reveals her Freudian Excuse to Aurora (i.e. Revenge for her mother's exile), and then tries to use her magic to kill her anyway, ignorance be damned.
  • Mama Bear: She loves her true-born daughters and loses it when Aurora kills Nox.
  • Manipulative Bitch: She doesn't directly lie and will uphold her end of a deal, but more often than not said deals are Sadistic Choices that hurt her enemies and their loved ones no matter the options.
  • Master Race: As a descendant of the Four Explorers that founded the kingdom of Lemuria, Umbra sees humanity as this and couldn't care less for the "common folk" of Lemuria (i.e. everyone that isn't her or her daughters.)
  • Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: The Obvious to her youngest daughter Nox's Secret. Umbra is described as a tyrannical usurper long before Aurora finds out her identity, and sure enough she lives up to her reputation.
  • Obviously Evil: She dresses in dark purple and has black hair, wears dark makeup around her eyes, and is first encountered in front of a prison-tower, accompanied by the unsettling "Path of the Eclipse" music. Clearly, something is about to go wrong.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: She loses it when Aurora kills Nox in battle, leaving her all alone.
  • Parental Favoritism: Surprisingly averted. Aurora never once mentions Umbra treating her poorly on the other side, and was apparently very close to Umbra's two daughters.
  • Pimped-Out Dress: She is (illegitimate) royalty, after all.
  • Revenge: A big motivator for her. Her mother was exiled from Lemuria long before the plot begins, fuelling much of her anger and hate.
  • Revenge by Proxy: She takes out her desire for vengeance on behalf of her mother's exile on an innocent child who had no knowledge of her mother's past. After she had already murdered said child's mother.
  • Sadistic Choice: While Aurora's father is in his last moments of life, Umbra forces Aurora to choose between returning home to her father at the cost of leaving Lemuria to its fate, or staying to protect Lemuria and watch her father die alone. Aurora tells her father that she has and will always love him, but chooses the latter. Her father tells her that she did the right thing, and then he dies.
  • Sins of Our Mothers: As if murdering Aurora's mother in the name of vengeance for exiling her own mother wasn't enough, Umbra tries to murder Aurora herself just for being the daughter of the one who exiled her mother.
  • Tyrant Takes the Helm: She killed Aurora's mother two years before the events of the story, and thus was able to usurp Lemuria and become the Queen of the Night.
  • Uncertain Doom: She isn't explicitly seen dying after her defeat by Aurora and co., unlike her daughters. It's unsure if she died or just gave up after the fact, but given what happened to her daughters after their dragon forms were killed, it's probably the former.
  • Wicked Stepmother: To Aurora, though she never treated Aurora badly until she killed her and thus sent her to Lemuria. After that it's played pretty straight.

    The Moon Thief 

Crepusculum/Cordelia

The older daughter of Queen Umbra, as well as the older of Aurora's two stepsisters. Loyal to Umbra and her younger sister, Nox. She is responsible for stealing the Lemurian Moon from the sky.

    The Sun Thief 

Nox/Norah

The younger daughter of Queen Umbra, as well as the younger of Aurora's two stepsisters, who deceived her since the very beginning as Norah. Though she claims that the Magic Mirror in the sky will take them home, it actually leads to the Forgotten Tower. The secondary antagonist, she is a cunning and manipulative girl. Loyal to Umbra and her older sister, Crepusculum. She is responsible for stealing the Lemurian Sun from the sky.
  • Ambiguously Absent Parent: Her biological father is never seen or even mentioned.
  • Ax-Crazy: She tries to kill Aurora several times, and if her Slasher Smile (which she does often) is any indication, she's more than a little unhinged.
  • Backhanded Apology: When she apprehends Aurora at the Forgotten Tower.
    Aurora: What are you doing!? Family first, now and forever!?
    Norah: I am sorry, Aurora. We are not together.
    Aurora: Sister, Norah...
    Nox: (Slasher Smile) Nox is my real name. You I admire, but you are not family.
  • Bad Boss: She's surrounded by frozen dark creatures when Aurora confronts her in the Cynbel Sea. Furthermore, she was willing to slay her mother's own army for the sake of maintaining her fake "Norah" persona.
  • Bad Powers, Bad People: Her Charm and Petrification abilities become a lot more fitting after she comes out as Evil All Along.
  • Beauty Is Bad: She's beautiful, and is a heartless manipulator with no redeeming factors.
  • Beneath Suspicion: She deliberately preys on Aurora's youthful innocence by pretending to be a good and loving sister. Aurora never suspects anything until it's too late.
  • Beyond Redemption: Aurora grimly disowns Nox as her sister after the latter betrays her, assists her mother Umbra in trying to kill her, and then imprisons her friends in the Forgotten Tower with the intention of leaving them to die, all without a trace of remorse for what she's done. The next and last time Aurora and Nox encounter each other, the two are purely enemies and fight to the death.
  • Big Bad Friend: Not quite the Big Bad, but otherwise stays true to the spirit of the trope.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts nice to Aurora and most of the other party members, but when she takes her little stepsister on a "detour" to the Forgotten Tower, she's revealed to be pure evil.
  • Broken Pedestal: To say that Aurora does not take her betrayal as Norah well would be a major understatement; the poor little girl is completely devastated, and if not for Óengus' Get A Hold Of Yourself Man speech would have given up in despair, and Queen Umbra would have arguably won.
  • Chekhov's Gungirl: She's briefly and anonymously mentioned near the end of Chapter 2, but Aurora doesn't find out who she is until the end of Chapter 7. Until then, the source of the Lemurians' plight is focused solely on Umbra.
  • Co-Dragons: With her sister, to Umbra.
  • Combat Tentacles: Her dragon form has two of them that act as Cognizant Limbs.
  • Consummate Liar: As Norah, she acts sweet to her little stepsister Aurora, makes promises of lifelong love and family, and fights alongside her as an ally. As Nox, she gleefully tells Aurora that She Lied about everything, has never considered her family in the first place, and had taken her to the Forgotten Tower on purpose so she and her mother can kill her.
  • Cool Big Sis: Subverted. She pretends to be a good sister to Aurora.
  • Defiant to the End: When Aurora confronts her for the last time, she rants on how Aurora will never rule and shall join her family and the rest of Lemuria in death.
    Aurora: Your tricks shall not halt me.
    Nox: A ruler you will never be! This is the end of your family. Don't worry, you will rejoin their number. Our land shall be up top, yours down under.
  • The Dragon: She's the secondary antagonist, and turns into a literal sea dragon during her boss battle.
  • Dramatic Wind: Same deal as the other princesses.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Her: For all the grief she causes Aurora, her death is pretty unceremonious. While Crepusculum and Umbra get to say some Last Words, Nox dies immediately after her dragon form is defeated.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Disturbingly averted. Nox remains loyal to her mother Umbra and older sister Crepusculum to the end, but shows no sign of being upset at Crepusculum's death in battle against Aurora and doesn't even mention her once when confronted in the Cynbel Sea. This is in stark contrast with Umbra's reaction to Nox's own defeat and death.
  • Evil All Along: She acts as a sweet, loving sister to Aurora while plotting to murder her from the start.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Óengus. They are both warriors who formed false alliances with the opposite side during the Lemuria conflict. However, Óengus joined Umbra and her daughters out of desperation to save the lives of his clan after falling into despair from he and his clan being overpowered by Umbra and her daughters in battle and doomed for death, was decidedly unhappy about betraying them, and accepted Aurora's offer to fight alongside her for a chance to regain his lost honour; Nox pretended to care for Aurora to gain her trust so she could manipulate her, had coldly planned her false bond with Aurora and subsequent betrayal from the start, and feels no remorse for what she's done and even takes sadistic pleasure in it. In the end, Óengus is forgiven by his brother the Kategida Captain; Nox is considered to be Beyond Redemption and is killed in battle by Aurora and her friends.
  • Expy: Several parallels can be drawn between her and the Evil One a.k.a. Airy from Bravely Default; both being white-haired girls who are not nearly as nice as they seem to be, are More Despicable Minions enforcing a greater evil's will, are fought near the end of their respective games, and transform into monstrous forms to fight the heroes.
  • False Friend: She forms a close bond with Aurora, but later betrays her and reveals she never genuinely cared about her and it was all for her own benefit, devastating Aurora.
  • Fan Disservice: She's a beautiful young girl whose dress leaves her shoulders exposed, but it's offset by her cruel, manipulative personality that makes her more frightening than anything.
  • Faux Affably Evil: While the game doesn't have any voice-acting other than the narrator, one gets the impression that Nox is this, mixing backhanded compliments with more obvious mocking towards Aurora even after The Reveal.
    Nox: Oh my stars, Aurora, look at you. Such fair skin and hair that shines. A shame such a foul bloodline gave birth to locks so fine. A princess would never dirty her dress cavorting with insects and common folk.
    Aurora: How dare you insult my friends.
    Nox: What are you, some kind of joke?
    Aurora: A double-crosser like you wears mud as her cloak.
  • Foil: To Aurora. Both are young princesses with connections to a Magical Land. While Aurora is a genuine Nice Girl, Nox pretends to be one, but "Norah" is a fake personality, and she's actually pure evil.
  • Foreshadowing: There are a few warning signs that she is not nearly as nice as she initially appears to be:
    • A meta example: The game is a Fairy Tale and takes inspiration from classic fairy tales. Stepfamilies in fairy tales aren't exactly known for being good peoplenote .
    • Her name tag and dialogue are color-coded black, in a game with heavy Light/Darkness Juxtaposition.
    • Closer inspection of her dialogue reveals the cold haughtiness peeking through the cracks in her façade. Nearly every "nice" thing said to the other party members is either a backhanded compliment or subtly patronizing in an aristocratic way, from calling Finn a funny "garden dwarf" to talking about Igniculus like he's a thing for decoration.
    • In one of her post-battle dialogues, she also dismisses Lemuria as a dismal Crapsack World unbefitting of royalty like Aurora and herself.
    • Her statement that the pair of magic rings she wears—the source of her powers—were given to her by the Lady of the Forest is suspicious, given that the Magic Mirror she guides Aurora to is in the complete opposite direction of the Mahthildis Forest. It is most likely she either was given them by her mother, or created them herself.
    • The most unsubtle one is her utter disgust at Robert and his species, which contrasts sharply with the open and accepting attitudes of the rest of the party. She even goes so far as to once threaten to kill Robert if he comes anywhere near her, which is as big a giveaway of her true nature as any.
  • Gameplay and Story Integration: During the fight against her dragon form, the main body is very slow... until she reaches the casting phase, where she suddenly becomes very fast. This can potentially catch her opponents off-guard, and fits her cunning, deceitful personality. Her Cognizant Limbs are also like this, but to a lesser extent.
  • The Girl Behind the Man: It is heavily implied that the Ogre that guards the entrance to the Cynbel Sea and ate the rest of Genovefa's kind—including her parents—is working for her, since she is found inside the Temple of the Sun within the Cynbel Sea.
  • I Lied: She gleefully tells Aurora that "Norah" was a fake personality all along, taking pleasure in mocking Aurora for her innocence.
  • Inexplicably Awesome: She either had her powers all along, or her mother empowered her. Considering she stole the Sun from the sky prior to the game's events, it's probably the former.
  • It's All About Me: In contrast to her mother, whose antipathy towards Aurora is motivated by resentment for the latter's mother exiling her own mother as punishment for her actions in the Lemuria Civil War (including reducing the Mahthildis and Rambert family lines to extinction) and desire to ensure the success of her own family line for future generations, Nox appears to be primarily motivated by her own sense of superiority (her mother also feels superior to others, but it's one of several reasons for her tyranny). She doesn't seem to be bothered by her grandmother's exile except in regard to how the exile affects herself. She doesn't even appear to care about her own blood family on any deeper level than sharing their ideas of power and hierarchical superiority, not once mentioning her sister Crepusculum during her standoff with Aurora in the Cynbel Sea, after Crepusculum was killed in battle by Aurora.
  • Lack of Empathy:
  • Light Is Not Good: She has white hair, wears a white dress, and is a sociopathic bitch who doesn't care about anybody unless she can use them for her own purposes.
  • Making a Splash: Her dragon form mainly uses water-elemental attacks.
  • Manipulative Bitch: She had been manipulating Aurora and her friends since the beginning, crafting an entire fake personality to avoid suspicion.
  • The Mole: She was on her mother's side the whole time, tricking Aurora into getting in the wrong Magic Mirror to lead her to the Forgotten Tower.
  • More Despicable Minion: While Umbra is far from likable, she is shown to love her biological daughters and somberly admits after her defeat that she wanted a home. Her youngest daughter Nox, on the other hand, is not portrayed in an even remotely redeeming or sympathetic light and is a strong candidate for the most despicable antagonist in the game, with her betrayal as Norah after pretending to be a good sister to Aurora (and taking pleasure in the pain she inflicts on Aurora from said betrayal) standing out as particularly cruel and personal, compounded further by the implication that she is behind the Ogre that eats the rest of Gen's kind, leaving her the sole survivorHow?.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: While Aurora is locked up in the Forgotten Tower as a result of Nox betraying her and leading her to Queen Umbra, Nox captures and imprisons all of Aurora's friends in cages in a separate cell in the tower to leave for death... whereupon she—for no good reason—neglects to lock the door or place a guard in front of it. After all, Aurora is locked away, Óengus is working for her in a Take Me Instead deal, a mechanical construction blocks access to the lower floors and exit, and all other Kategida are imprisoned in a magical labyrinth within the tower; so What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Cue Óengus learning that Aurora is the late Queen of Light's daughter and becoming The Atoner, leading to the two finding Aurora's imprisoned friends and setting them all free. After successfully pulling off a cunning manipulation plot, Nox grabs the Idiot Ball with her security negligence.
  • Nice to the Waiter: Inverted; she shows a huge amount of disgust towards the Bolmus Populi.
  • No Body Left Behind: She crumbles into dust shortly after her dragon form is defeated.
  • Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: The Secret to her mother Umbra's Obvious. Nox avoids suspicion by using a fake name and personality to manipulate her little stepsister Aurora into loving and trusting her. Once she leads Aurora through the wrong Magic Mirror to the Forgotten Tower where Umbra awaits, Nox gleefully reveals The Sociopath that hides Beneath the Mask.
  • Obviously Evil: Averted initially, but definitely played straight after she tricks Aurora into entering the tampered Magic Mirror to the Forgotten Tower. Her eyes turn red, and her default expression becomes an unhinged smile that makes her look downright disturbing and leaves no room for doubt as to what a twisted monster she really is.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: After betraying Aurora, Nox's eyes change color from brown to a dull red.
  • Sadist: She's sickeningly cruel, taking pleasure in the pain she inflicts upon Aurora after betraying her. Her Slasher Smile says it all!
  • Slasher Smile: She does this often, especially right before transforming.
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear
  • The Sociopath:
    • She has an outwardly charming personality so as to conceal her true self and manipulate others, is a frequent and convincing liar, and has a sense of superiority as well as no empathy.
    • While she remains loyal to her mother Umbra and sister Crepusculum to the end, she isn't shown to feel any genuine affection for them, her own blood family. In particular, when Aurora confronts her in the Cynbel Sea, Nox briefly notes that Aurora has grown from the power of the moon, then proceeds to taunt her for befriending the "insect" lower classes while appearing completely unconcerned by Crepusculum's death, to the extent that she doesn't even mention her once. For all the horrible things that Umbra does during the course of the game, she does have a somewhat understandable (albeit far from justifiable) motivation for her crimes and is shown to genuinely love her true-born daughters, whereas Nox prioritises her and her family's supposed "hierarchical superiority" above all else, even familial love.
  • Troll: After betraying Aurora, Nox takes pleasure in mocking Aurora for her innocence and for her choice in friends. In the final stages of the game, Nox sets up a trap in the Temple of the Sun filled with poison gas and states that Aurora will join her deceased family members down under.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Downplayed as she isn't a child, but Nox is still explicitly described as the younger of her mother's two daughters and seems to be in her early- to mid-teens, only a few years older than Aurora. While her sense of superiority can be passed off as a fairly normal phase for someone her agenote , taking pleasure in engaging in psychological abuse, attempted murder, torture and implied genocide are giveaways that there is something very wrong with her.
  • Villain Has a Point: She's a manipulative liar, but ironically, Nox is right when she tells Aurora there are some people out there in the world who have no obligation for kindness or compassion, and that trying to get through to them is futile. Mere moments later, she really hammers her point home in the most horrible way possible. Given her own personality, her Hard Truth Aesop is ironically the most honest thing she says during the entire story.
  • Villain Respect: Even after The Reveal, Nox claims to admire Aurora as an individual, but makes it clear she has never considered her family. It's most likely any admiration Nox may feel for Aurora comes strictly from a combat context, and said admiration doesn't even come close to mitigating her heartless deceit and betrayal.
  • Was It All a Lie?: Aurora has this reaction to her betrayal. Nox claims to have admired Aurora even after The Reveal, if only for her fighting spirit.
    Aurora: Family first, now and forever!?
    Norah: I am sorry, Aurora.
    Norah: We are not together.
  • Warrior Princess: She's Queen Umbra's daughter, after all.
  • White and Red and Eerie All Over: She has white hair, wears a white dress, has red eyes, and is a dangerous sociopath.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: She has long, white hair, and is a thoroughly depraved girl.
  • Youngest Child Wins: Subverted. She's the younger daughter of Aurora's stepmother and comes across as a caring, protective older sibling to Aurora. She tricks Aurora into entering the tampered magic mirror to take her to a prison tower, where she's revealed to be as far away from caring or protective as possible.

Historical Characters

    The Ancient Explorers 

Cynbel the Wise, Erin the Conqueror, Mahthildis and Rambert

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Well, here stands the explorers four...

The historical founders of Lemuria, said to have built many of the ruins you travel through. Aurora can occasionally find statues of them, but they are all long gone by the time the game starts.

  • Famous Ancestor: Given a slight twist on the usual fantasy trope: the "good guys", Aurora and her mother, are descended from Erin the Conqueror. The "bad guys", Umbra and her children, are descended from Cynbel the Wise.
  • Location Theme Naming: Inverted. Locations throughout Lemuria are named after them; the Mahthildis Forest, the Plains of Rambert, the Cliffs of Erin and the Cynbel Sea.
  • Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Cynbel's descendants eventually became power-hungry and evil, but given their ancestor's title as "The Wise" it is likely that Cynbel himself was not like this and would have been horrified at the actions of his distant kin.
  • Only One Name: They all have this, but Mahthildis and Rambert aren't even distinguished by epithets.
  • Out of Focus: While they are all more setdressing than characters, Rambert and Mahthildis are given the least focus, while Cynbel and Erin are distant ancestors of the villain and hero respectively.
  • Posthumous Character: They all died long before the plot begins.
  • Precursors: They built many of the buildings Aurora travels through. They're all long gone, and Aurora declares their civilization a failure.

    Queen Umbra's mother 

A woman who tried to conquer Lemuria long before Aurora's birth, but was defeated and banished by the Queen of Light. Her daughter and granddaughters try to conquer Lemuria in her stead.

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